http://coinz.org Design, technology, information architecture, usability and social commentary from Chicago 2005-01-28T16:26:49Z en-US http://coinz.org/archives/?date=20050128&id=110692937019852752 You've no doubt heard the buzz about the new photo element added to A9's yellow pages search, but did you hear about A9's attempt to create buzz on the OC? I mean, c'mon - "I a9.com'd him."? Seriously? Like, no way! Lame yes, but a harbinger of a new adv Shane Winegard 2005-01-28T16:22:49Z http://coinz.org/archives/?date=20050120&id=110623665255394434 Our friends over at 37signals have built another sweet application called Ta-da List. While the functionality is a subset of the list management functionality inherent in Basecamp, the tools is free for anyone to use and the lists you create are sharable. I Shane Winegard 2005-01-20T15:57:32Z http://coinz.org/archives/?date=20050113&id=110565182130514780 Now why didn't I think of the global white space reset when spending all of those hours tweaking countless CSS elements to pacify browser deficiencies? Never again! Shane Winegard 2005-01-13T21:30:21Z http://coinz.org/archives/?date=20050112&id=110555331331617708 Having just dealt with a barage of comment spam on Big Ten Drunks earlier this week, I found it ironic that the folks at Six Apart developed the Six Apart Guide to Comment Spam. While I was able to uncover and implement a number of Six Apart's suggestion Shane Winegard 2005-01-12T19:08:10Z http://coinz.org/archives/?date=20050110&id=110538175542482300 Gurunet (which was free), which became Atomica (which was not) has recently morphed into Answers.com (which is free). I used the Gurunet client on a daily basis during its free days, and am definitely looking forward to Alt-Clicking my way to answers usin Shane Winegard 2005-01-10T19:29:17Z http://coinz.org/archives/?date=20050106&id=110504446122229244 Who would of thought that A Million Monkey's Typing could come up with such a fine collection of time management templates? While version 1.0 is based heavily upon David Allen's 'Getting Things Done' methodologies, Doug isn't trying to limit users of his Shane Winegard 2005-01-06T20:28:23Z http://coinz.org/archives/?date=20040407&id=108135044217394075 Over the past 5 years or so, PC Magazine has published a list of 100 little-known web site essentials. While blandly titled, PC Magazine's 'Top 100 Web Sites' will point you to more than a few sites that you'll soon become a regular visitor of. Shane Winegard 2004-04-07T15:07:22Z http://coinz.org/archives/?date=20040406&id=108126483590104549 Nick Denton and crew have beta released Kinja, their latest 'weblogs-for-the-masses' creation. Kinja is basically an easy to use RSS aggregator geared towards people that don't know/don't care about what RSS is. I like to think of it as a web-based Newsga Shane Winegard 2004-04-06T15:20:35Z http://coinz.org/archives/?date=20040312&id=107904960144622419 I've been busy working on a Microsoft Exchange 2003 upgrade for the past 6 weeks or so (hence the no posts in February thing) and finally rolled a new front-end server into production yesterday. A couple of minor snags along the way, but no major issues t Shane Winegard 2004-03-12T00:00:01Z http://coinz.org/archives/?date=20040310&id=107889635725040493 The folks over at Evolt.org have put together another fine article about how touse CSS to speed up download times. Prying under the hood of this site you'll see a number of them at work and a handful of them that need to be applied. What's that song about Shane Winegard 2004-03-10T05:25:57Z http://coinz.org/archives/?date=20040128&id=107532860999788437 Probably not, but the folks at Adaptive Path have done some excellent work pulling together a number of segmented best practices that should help improve the information architecture and usability of analogous sites that make use of them. "Product manage Shane Winegard 2004-01-28T22:23:29Z